Principles of Cognition, Language and Action: Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology - Rilegato

Praetorius, N.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0792362306 ISBN 13: 9780792362302

Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

Riassunto

This work exposes flaws in the reductionist assumptions about mind and matter of naturalism and constructivism, which underlie research and theorizing on cognition, language and action within academic psychology. The author argues for alternative, radically different assumptions about the relationship between the mental and material reality, which are not only tenable, but as a matter of principle must be taken for granted, and be the point of departure for all investigations into both reality and our cognition and description of it. The consequences of the arguments in this book are far-reaching. The assumptions and principles derived from them offer a consistent foundation for a science of psychology. They also open up new and straightforward ways of dealing with the key issues of truth and intentionality, subjectivity and objectivity, of relevance to philosophy, the humanities and social sciences.

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Contenuti

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Development of a Science of Psychology. 1. Introduction to Assumptions and Arguments. 2. Alternative Assumptions and Principles. 3. Problem of Explanations and Theories of Visual Perception. 4. Consequences for Perception Psychology and Epistemology. Part II: The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality. 5. The Relation Between Language and Reality. 6. Language, Concepts and Reality. 7. Situations, Action and Knowledge. 8. Scientific and Other Descriptions of Reality. 9. Physicalism and Psychology. 10. Context, Content and Reference - The Case for Beliefs and Intentionality. 11. Propositions about Real as Opposed to Fictitious Things. 12. Why There still Cannot be a Causal Theory of Content. 13. The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality I. 14. The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality II. 15. The Relation between Language, Cognition and Reality III. Part III: Identity. 16. Identity and Identification - Same and Different. Part IV: Persons. 17. Some Consequences of Epistemological Idealism. 18. Wittgenstein's Theories of Language. 19. The External World and the Internal. 20. The Inter-Subjectivity of Knowledge and Language. 21. The Conditions for People to be and Function as Persons: Summary and Consequences. References. Index.

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Book by Praetorius N

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792362306
• ISBN 13: 9780792362302
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 513
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